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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

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If you do the math, this tells us that sales reps are expected to work 1000 marketing qualified leads down to 14 to 48 sales qualified leads and close 20% or 30% of those leads respectively; and end up with 3 to 14 deals. Not very efficient, right? Cost per sales qualified lead is $1,250.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

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First and foremost, the acceptance process allows marketing to confirm that sales or partners are acting on all delivered leads. The rates of lead acceptance and rejection reveal lead management and quality problems that can be quickly addressed. a sales rep reports, ‘I called the prospect three times.

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Four Things to Consider Before You Buy Marketing Automation

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To have a successful marketing automation implementation start with this question and this question alone: “What does our lead management process look like and how can we automate it?” If you don’t have a solid lead management process in place than a marketing automation platform (MAP) will only automate a broken process.

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Improve Sales Lead Generation via Marketing Analytics Part 1: Four Steps

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When it comes to improving sales lead generation results, using marketing technology without analytics expertise and business acumen results in a numbers glut devoid of action items. Embedded in every client program, they help us identify the right prospects and convert them to qualified leads. Segmentation and testing.

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The Skinny on Lead Nurturing - 11 Experts Weigh In (part 2 of 2)

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At each step of the improved process, research showed that when attention was given to the prospects and they were contacted, sales improved. Marketing became further educated when they asked sales about the customer buying process and the sales selling process. His lead nurturing program did precisely that.